Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1887-09-18

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Fifth place is out of reach because OF the
waning season, but Washington and In
dianapolis are slowly falling out OF Pitts
burg's view. These two teams are stlll
playing poorly and there is no prospect OF
improI ement in the standing OF either one.
ASSOCIATION STANDING.
vs.. L. PC w. 4. PC
st LouisSs 81 .7IO Brooklyn oil ~
louisville - % 'SgS A Aais '''''SS 81 sd
Baltimore ...6S So .543 Cleyeland~...S 81 '2s&
THE ASSOCIATION.
st. Louis, without Comiskey, has drop
ped little, but it is impossible for the
team to get back far enough for the others
to even catch g glimpse Of her. Clncln-
natl now lead4 Louisville for second place
by IA points, and the BourbOns will have
to hustle. Baltimore is still falling, but
is safe enough in fourth. Brooklyn and
the Athletics are again tied for fifth, and
the tail enders are havinga dreadful strug-
gle, in which Cleveland is overhauling the
Nets quite rapidly.
Cushman was released by the Nets.
The Nets have broken all records. They
were ''chicagoed" twice in one day.
"Jack" Lynch has heen made trainer Of
the Nets He will give the young pitchers
two lessons each day.
Pagan, the pitcher, has been engaged by
the Nets after the game. 1t IS thought he
will make good pitcher.
Knowles, of Rochester, has been signed
by the Nets. They will also engage kins-
| low, the catcher of the Allentown Club,
recently engaged by the Detroits.
Charley Radbourn, the pitcher recently
suspended by the Boston Club, was rein
stated yesterday afternoon, and left last
night to Join the Boston team at Pittsburg.
Owing TO the continued defeats of the
Washington nine the management have
decided or a new course of action. Gilligan
and Dealy have been called home, and
Shoch and Wright sent to Detroit TO play
the club. Manager Gaffney will probably
be superseded in short time, and other
changes are in contemplation.
According to the Detroit Free Press, Pres
idents Spalding, Brush, Nimick, Hewitt
and Stearns are in favor Of the percentage
plan of dividing the receipts. Presidents
SodOn and Reach are opposed. 1t requires
six votes TO carry the measure through and
the whole thing hinges on the action that
will be taken by President Day, of the
New York club.
There is whiSkeTs on this one. The
happiest man in the United States is De
troit citizen who goes about with a halt
bushel of hair on his head and face. SIEVE
raj wears ago he made a vow to wear his
hair and beard uncut until the Detroit
Baseball club won the championship. He
has already made contract with barber,
on favorable terms, for the removal OF the
entire mass. "-Chicago Tribune.
The new Chicago team for 1888 will very
probably consist of Williamson Captain,
Pfeffer, Darling, Van Haltren, Clarkson,
Flint, DAILY, GlaSscock, Denny, Petit,
Boyle and Tebeau.
1t is said that the reserve list Of the
Pittsburg club will be Morris, Mccormick,
Calvin, Carroll, Miller, Whitney, Cole
man, Barkley, Kuehne, Feds, Smith and
Dalrymple. Perhaps Kuehne and Dali
rymple may be left on, under special
agreements, to make room for Beecher,
and possibly another man may be secured.
| 4 letter was received in st. Louis from
Williamson by a friend last week which
corroborates the rumOr of demoraliz alton
! in the Chicago club. He asserts that An
| sons CONDUCT is intolerable, aud that he is
growing more abusiye every day. He is
not so hard on the ''old blood Us the
new blood" but he raves at both on the
slighte.t provocation. 81 am going to get
out of it at the end of the season." he
writes. 81 want no more Chicago in mine. "
Sweeney has reIired :rGm base ball. He
was q failure even on the Pacihc coast.
Mutrie telegraphed Alyord, third base
man of the Des Moines base ball club, ask
ing if he could get his release from the Des
MoinaI I'D ioin the New York club with
out delay. Alyord casTisa the 5iSIatrh to
the manager and asked for his RELEASE, but
it was refused.
The Louisvilles dropped heavier and fell
further Friday than thew have'at any one
time since they have been considered lai.ly
sure of winning second place. They lost q
game to the Athletics, and the drop was
accentuated, so to speak, by one from the
Nets and one from the Brooklyns, the Gin
cinnatis winning two games. This will
tend to intensity the situation for the next
three days at Cincinnati, where the two
clubs have a series of three games sched-
uled.
Yesterday was great day for crank
let's" Three clubs were shut out; there
were two games of 3 to 0; three games in
which score of won; three games in
which q score of lost; two games in
| which q score of to won; two games in
which score OF Ill won, and to cap
the climax the Nets. experienced what no
other club has experienced heretofore in
the league or association since their organ
ganization-eighteen whitewsshes in one
day where two full games ended IN the
ninth inning; they also received twenty
seven whitewashes in two days, losing
three games in succession without scoring
q run.
Forty-two League games have been
PLAYED this season where less than five hits
we're made. Buffinton has pitched two
games in which but one hit was made of
his delivery. OF the games With two hits
Radbourne has pitched one, Madden one,
Welch one, Pete Conway one and Healy
two. haQDOurne nOluS TeCoTu OnSS vi
three hits, O'Day once, Casey twice, WEIGH,
Keefe, Whitney, Ferguson, Pete Conway,
Mccormick and Clarkson one each. Oh
games where four a;ts have been made
Keefe has pitched five, Getzein three,
Bowie and Welch two each, R. Conway,
O'Day, Whitney, RadbOurne, Mattimore,
Titcomb, Beatin, Calvin, Leitner and
| Mark Baldwin have one each
Deacon White is quoted by Washing,
ton reporter as saying that he had often
heard of oyerworked ball players, but he
had never seen any of them up to date. y
He cited, as an illustration that pitcher
should pitch many games without relief
Getzein's work in two consecutive games
against the home club Monday and Tues,
day. Mr.. White says it is useless expend
itrre of money to employ three or foul
pitchers. One man can, if necessary, pitch
week in and week out unless he becomes
injured, and, If tine system o! maintaining
several batteries were abolished, the result
would he equally as beneficial from every